70 AIM, UMR 7158, CEA/DRF, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Irfu/Service d'Astrophysique,
Centre de Saclay, FR-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

We present the results from three gravitational-wave searches for coalescing compact
binaries with component masses above 1 M⊙ during the first and second observing runs of …

The detection of gravitational waves by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo provides an
opportunity to test general relativity in a regime that is inaccessible to traditional …

Gravitational waves provide a unique tool for observational astronomy. While the first LIGO–
Virgo catalogue of gravitational-wave transients (GWTC-1) contains 11 signals from black …

As gravitational-wave detectors become more sensitive and broaden their frequency
bandwidth, we will access a greater variety of signals emitted by compact binary systems …

We review the dramatic progress in the simulations of compact objects and compact-object
binaries that has taken place in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. This includes …

Spin precession is one of the key physical effects that coul unveil the origin of the compact
binaries detected by ground-and space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, and shed …

Accurate models of gravitational waves from merging black holes are necessary for
detectors to observe as many events as possible while extracting the maximum science …

Only numerical relativity simulations can capture the full complexities of binary black hole
mergers. These simulations, however, are prohibitively expensive for direct data analysis …

We present SEOBNRv5HM, a more accurate and faster inspiral-merger-ringdown
gravitational waveform model for quasicircular, spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes …